§ Order of the Day for the Second Reading, read.
§ THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Viscount CRANBROOK)My Lords it is not necessary for me to make any statement with respect to this Bill, which for two years has been passed by your Lordships; no change is made in it of any importance, and therefore I merely move that it be read a second time.
§ Moved, "That the Bill be now read 2a."—(The Viscount Cranbrook.)
§ Motion agreed to; Bill read 2a accordingly, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Monday the 13th of June next.